Spoke about it onstage Tuesday night, the Friends of the Parks boss did.

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Delightfully catty toward George Lucas, his 47-year-old nemesis was.

"I am not a Trekkie or a 'Stars Wars' fan, but my husband does speak Yoda," Irizarry said during an onstage interview at the Hideout bar in West Town.

Later, she told Chicago Inc. that her spouse adopted the persona of the wise green alien to help her cope with the stress of her successful fight to keep the billionaire filmmaker from building his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on the lakefront.

Onstage, Irizarry told journalist Jen Sabella and teacher Erika Wozniak that a good portion of the abuse she got online for fighting Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, over the museum amounted to "tantrums" from folks who had "'Star Wars' stuff all over their Facebook page."

"George Lucas is a moviemaker who had a vision ... and if he wasn't going to get his way, it wasn't going to happen," she said. "I think Mellody Hobson truly loves Chicago, truly wanted this museum in Chicago, and it stayed as long as it did because Mellody Hobson was trying really hard to get her husband to make it in Chicago, but I don't believe her husband cared one way or another."

Of the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who last month accused Irizarry of being like a gang leader for fighting to keep the museum off the lakefront, Irizarry said she had tried hard to be "very nice about him in public."

But she said Pfleger's support for Lucas was "bought and paid for" by Lucas' financial support for Pfleger's St. Sabina parish.

Pfleger fired back Wednesday that Irizarry's comments were "insulting" and added, "she obviously does not know me very well."

He added that he had spoken out against the Friends of the Parks long before St. Sabina received support from Lucas, including when the group opposed Mayor Richard M. Daley's attempts to move the Children's Museum to Grant Park nearly a decade ago.